25, 50, and 75 Years Ago

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024

May 10, 1999 SOUTH ST. PAUL, Minn. — More than 500 angry farmers from a dozen Midwestern states came to this former meatpacking center April 18 to demand the federal government do something about worsening conditions they face. Much of…


The opening guns of World War III

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024

The U.S. rulers’ 1991 war on Iraq, and their inability to decisively win it, sounded the opening guns of World War III. It announced that the world order born out of Washington’s emergence as the top dog in World War…


Russia’s socialist revolution posed the road forward everywhere

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024
Delegates to the Congress of the Peoples of the East in Baku, Azerbaijan, September 1920. “Soviet Russia is the fortress of the world revolution,” James P. Cannon said. It “inspires and strengthens the movement of the workers and oppressed peoples throughout the world.”

The Left Opposition in the U.S.: Writings and Speeches, 1928-31 by James P. Cannon is one of Pathfinder’s Books of the Month for April. Cannon was won to the political course of the 1917 Russian Revolution led by the Bolshevik…


Protests spread against ‘Russian law’ in Georgia

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024
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Some 20,000 people, mainly young, protested in Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital, April 18, chanting, “No to the Russian law!” The former Soviet republic bordering Russia on the Black Sea has been rocked for days by demonstrations opposing the ruling Georgian Dream…



Bookshop fights for right to send books to prisoners

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024
Gwinnett County Jail’s ban on sending books to prisoners “violates our First Amendment right to free speech,” said Luis Correa, above, operations manager for Avid Bookshop in Georgia.

ATHENS, Ga. — The Avid Bookshop here is fighting for the right to send books to prisoners. It filed a lawsuit against the sheriff and jail commander of the Gwinnett County Jail in mid-March for refusing to accept books from…


May Day actions to defend immigrants, workers’ rights

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024

Events to celebrate May 1 — International Workers Day — are being held around the country, from strikes by e-hail drivers in several cities, to actions to win support for union contract fights and protests for the rights of immigrant…


800 Toronto airport Teamsters strike for higher pay, safety

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024

MISSISSAUGA, Ontario— “Share the news. It must get around to everybody,” striker Maged Awad told the Militant as we walked the picket line at Toronto Pearson International Airport here April 20. Some 800 Teamsters Local 647 members struck airline meal…


Daimler workers prepare for strike as contract deadline nears

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024
United Auto Workers members join strike preparation rally April 10 outside Daimler trucking warehouse in Buford, Georgia. Workers are fighting for a wage raise, cost-of-living protection.

BUFORD, Ga. — Chanting “No bucks, no trucks!” and “We are the union — mighty, mighty union!” some 80 members of the United Auto Workers marched here April 20 in a practice picket in front of the Daimler Trucks parts…


Volkswagen workers vote overwhelmingly for UAW

Vol. 88/No. 18 - May 6, 2024
Autoworkers at Volkswagen in Chattanooga, Tennessee, celebrate announcement of 73% vote for UAW April 19. Victory gives impetus to workers fighting for union recognition elsewhere.

In an important victory for unions across the U.S., workers at the Chattanooga, Tennessee, Volkswagen plant voted by 73% to be represented by the United Auto Workers, giving impetus to workers fighting for union recognition elsewhere. It’s the first assembly…